GK Question: List of First in the World
1.
The first
person to reach Mount Everest: Sherpa
Tenzing, Edmund Hillary
2.
The
first person to reach North Pole: Robert
Peary
3.
The
first person to reach South Pole: Amundsen
4.
The
first religion of the world: Hinduism
5.
The
first country to print book: China
6.
The
first country to issue paper currency: China
7.
The
first country to commence competitive examination in civil services: China
8.
The
first President of the U.S.A: George
Washington
9.
The
first Prime Minister of Britain: Robert
Walpole
10. The first Governor General of the United
Nations: Trigveli
(Norway)
11. The first country to win football World
cup: Uruguay
12. The first country to prepare a
constitution: U.S.A
13. The first Governor General of Pakistan: Mohd. Ali Jinnah
14. The first European to attack India: Alexander, The Great
15. The first European to reach China: Marco Polo
16. The first person to fly aeroplane: Wright Brothers
17. The first person to sail round the world: Magellan
18. The first country to send man to the moon: U.S.A
19. The first country to launch Artificial
satellite in the space: Russia
20. The first country to host the modern
Olympics: Greece
21. The first city on which the atom bomb was
dropped: Hiroshima
(Japan)
22. The first person to land on the moon: Neil Armstrong followed by Edwin E. Aldrin
23. The first shuttle to go in space: Columbia
24. The first spacecraft to reach on Mars: Viking-I
25. The first woman Prime Minister of England: Margaret Thatcher
26. The first Muslim Prime Minister of a
country: Benazir
Bhutto (Pakistan)
27. The first woman Prime Minister of a
country: Mrs. S.
Bandamaike (Sri Lanka)
28. The first woman to climb Mount Everest: Mrs. Junko Tabei (Japan)
29. The first woman cosmonaut of the world: Velentina Tereshkova (Russia)
30. The first woman President of the U.N.
General Assembly: Vijaya
Lakshmi Pandit
31. The first man to fly into space: Yuri Gagarin (Russia)
32. The first batsman to score three test
century in three successive tests on debut: Mohd.
Azharuddin
33. The first man to have climbed Mount Everest
twice: Nawang Gombu
34.
The
first U.S. President to resign Presidency: Richard
Nixon